From 74ce002d9aee23031b4967e1dd1c1966ddc60749 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:22:05 -0700 Subject: fs/fs-writeback.c: restore lost comment I had to go back to a 2.6.20 tree to work out why we're adding a number-of-inodes into a number-of-pages count. Restore the lost comment. Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c') diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 97d2951bd4d1..b5aae4bd0aca 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -721,6 +721,10 @@ static long wb_check_old_data_flush(struct bdi_writeback *wb) return 0; wb->last_old_flush = jiffies; + /* + * Add in the number of potentially dirty inodes, because each inode + * write can dirty pagecache in the underlying blockdev. + */ nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) + (inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused); -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151